The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-05-15

neglect us: aud il the rush of preparing
such an entertainment as that which he
was then engaged in getting up, the over
sight was perfectly excusable.
We UNDERSTAND that the statement in
last Sundays News that William Bayard
Clarke, whose rich wife is suing him for
divorce, is without means, was an error,
and that he is worth, in his own right,
about 500, 000 His defence of his wife's
suit Is not in the nature of hunt for his
wife's estate, but is mainly inspired by a
desire to gain possession of their two chill
dren. The case is said to be wonderfully
full of sensational features. Testimony
was taken in the proceedings one day last
week ia Westchester County.
President Muirheid of the Palma's, dis
covered dob" Ingersoll's genius long be-
fore the country at large had heard of him.
Mr.. Muirheid. in looking over a bookcase
of cheap literature exposed for sale, some
where many years ago, found little
volume attacking the Bible that had been
written by certain Western lawyer named
Robert j. Ingersoll. CHANGING through it
he was attracted by two or three flashes of
wit that struck his eye, and he bought the
book. 1t was an epitome of all the thun-
der-bolts Ingerson has sihce fred at the
Church,
Freebooter McArdle, who bosses
four saloons in the city, has just been van
pushed in lively encounter with Rich,
the man who keeps hotel on Exchange
Place. McArdle had cheap saloon on
premises adjoining the hotel. His lease
expired, and Rich wanted to take posses
sion of the place for his own use. Nc
Ardle refused to deliver the keys, and by
piece of strategy Rich got on the inside of
the saloon, locked so much of McArdle's
whiskey as McArdle didn't carry under his
waist-coat inside, and McArdle himself on
the outside. and has kept possession of the
place since.
Isaac S. Taylor. Chancellor McGills
law partner, can't make a speech to save
his life" said one who met him in the cars
the other day. .But be is not the only
lawyer at the local bar who isn't much on
the talk. Charles L. Corbin will get away
from making a speech whenever it is pos
sible Wash Williams is not much dis
posed to speech making either. Mr..
Williams can however make an unusually
good speech. His address in defense of
Mechela, who was hanged here for MUIR
der some years ago, was a model, as to
its substance if not as to its delivery.
Another lawyer who is not much given to
SpSCCu I1dhlDS, OAb WIZ 10 gu
pretty orator notwithstanding is cor
poration Counsel Blair
One of the choice musical entertainments
of the season is the invitation concert to be
given under the direction of Prof. Victor
Baier, at the Hasbrouck Institute, next
Thursday evening" by the Schubert Glee
Club. The Glee Club has had Gentle
mems Night" entertainment already. Next
Thursday is to be ''Ladies Night" The
Glee Club is an association of accomplished
professional singers recruited from this
city, perhaps thirty in all During the
evening they will sing. six glees, among
others an arrangement of Annie Llurie
by Dusley Buck, the Linden Tree by
Spicker, the Laughing Song by Abt, Spin
Spin by Yungst. Prof. Mollenhauer will
participate in the Instrumental music, and
w. Gum of New York will be the tenor.
A SUNDAY MORNING News reporter
heard story bout DR.. Quimby few
days ago which shows what real good
Prohibitionist he is way down in his heart.
The doctor has friend-and that friend
is anxious to open restaurant-not a gin
mill by the way, only a real nice res
taurant where the hungry mortals may go
and be filed with the good things of this
world. The friend of the great prohibi-
zionist wanted to secure license-to sell
tea and coffee likely; so he went to his
medical friend and requested him to sign a
petition which would pave the way for
the said license DR.. QuimbY could not
see his way clear in the matter, as he be-
lieves so strongly in prohibition; therefore
he sent his friend with a letter to Mr.
William Morgan the piano dealer, with
the request that he sign the petition Mr..
folI ha tla1,1 hot no
would have nothing to do with it, and
that he would not play seco1d fiddle to
the great prohibition doctor.
There is no official in the county whose
duties are discharged with more conscien-
tious care and intelligence than that County
Physician Converse brings to the discharge
of his duties. Il is early and late with him,
never quitting his rounds till his work is
thoroughly done. His large experience in
the care of county patients for many years,
combined with rare natural talent, and
wide range of reading, make his judg-
ment in critical cases OF the highest possible
value. But his official duties are so absorb
ing that he has little time to attend to q
private practice. He has the care of all
patients in the county institutions on his
hands, and besides, has to investigate
every case of sudden or violent death
which occurs in the city. This latter duty
was devolved on the shoulders of the
County Physician in order not only to save
expense to the County, but the annoyance
ola coroner's Inquest in bereaved families
In his attention to this latter branch of his
business, he is sternly impartial. Inquests
are ordered only in cases in which they
may help to bring guilty persons to justice.
and the old time farce of inquests over
every luckless fellow who does not happen
to leave the world with proper decorum,
has been made thing of the past by him.
Our First Parents and Ourselves.
From the time when our first parents
were driven from the Garden of Eden the